HEIC image support

[batusai513]

Hi, I've been using this library for a while and it works really great, one thing that came up recently is to give HEIC image support, but when I try to load them, it cannot be done, it shows an error, it would be possible to add support for those images with this library?

Thanks.

[blueimp]

Thanks for your suggestion @batusai513.

I've marked this as a feature request, but it's likely that I will only add this if the HEIC format (HEIF) is natively supported by browsers.

There is the following library that supports converting HEIC images to JPEG/PNG/GIF on the client-side:
https://github.com/alexcorvi/heic2any
Unfortunately the distribution file for heic2any is more than a Megabyte in size.

See also: blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload#3645

[edent]

You may be interested in https://github.com/exif-heic-js/exif-heic-js for reading HEIC EXIF metadata. It is a relatively small library.

[blueimp]

Thanks for sharing @edent.
I think it's worth considering if reading HEIC EXIF metadata alone is worth it, but so far I still prefer to see if the format will get broad browser support first.

[Aarbel]

@blueimp do you support now heic files loading ? Would be really wonderfull

[blueimp]

Not yet supported unfortunately.

[robbaman]

Afaik heic in canvas support on browsers is pretty common these days, but it doesn't seem to work with this library. Any chance this could be added (or some pointers to where in the code this should be added)?